Browsing Department of Linguistics & TESOL by Subject "Relative clauses"
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INDEPENDENT SOURCES OF RELATIVE CLAUSE PROCESSING DIFFICULTY: EVIDENCE FROM RUSSIAN
(2016-05-11)This study investigates the influence of syntactic, semantic, and frequency-of-occurrence information, as well as role of memory in the comprehension of complex sentences. This was done by examining the processing of Russian ... -
On the syntax of West Kalimantan: Asymmetries and A'-movement in Malayic and Land Dayak languages
(2020-09-01)This dissertation focuses on five Malayic and five Land Dayak languages of West Kalimantan, Indonesia, exploring voice, A’-movement, and extraction asymmetries through a Minimalist framework. The main goal of this dissertation ... -
Relative Clause Processing: Evidence from Russian
(Department of Linguistics and TESOL, University of Texas at Arlington., 2014)Studies on relative clauses (RCs) in a number of languages have shown that object-extracted RCs (ORCs) are more difficult to process than subject-extracted RCs (SRCs). SRC-ORC processing asymmetry has been attributed to: • ...